Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    The key requirment is authoritarianism, especially now. Being left has little to do with it anymore. When you defend modern Russia, you aren’t left. It’s a fantasy about former communist authoritarian countries with little to no regard for modern reality.

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      1 year ago

      I’m aware, but authoritarianism isn’t useful either. The US, Britain, Russia, Mozambique, and the USSR are all authoritarian states.

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          Just in case you’re serious:

          • US citizens are under far more governmental surveillance than any other country in the world, past or present.
          • the presidential cabinet is analogous to several “authoritarian regimes”.
          • The US has “plainclothes police officers”, analogous to what the US calls secret police in other nations.
          • the US police force kills on average 1000 people extrajudicially every year. That’s at least 3 people per day. Since 2019, more people have been killed by police than there were deaths during 9/11.
          • there are more people in prison now than there were in gulags at their height under Stalin.